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Agentic Property-Based Testing: Finding Bugs Across the Python Ecosystem
Muhammad Maaz, Liam DeVoe, Zac Hatfield-Dodds +1
Property-based testing (PBT) is a lightweight formal method, typically implemented as a randomized testing framework. Users specify the input domain for their test using combinator…
Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking
Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang +5
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed in critical applications, raising urgent needs for robust safety benchmarking. We propose Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a no…
Sleepless Nights, Sugary Days: Creating Synthetic Users with Health Conditions for Realistic Coaching Agent Interactions
Taedong Yun, Eric Yang, Mustafa Safdari +13
We present an end-to-end framework for generating synthetic users for evaluating interactive agents designed to encourage positive behavior changes, such as in health and lifestyle…
Specific versus General Principles for Constitutional AI
Sandipan Kundu, Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath +33
Human feedback can prevent overtly harmful utterances in conversational models, but may not automatically mitigate subtle problematic behaviors such as a stated desire for self-pre…
Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak +16
Human feedback is commonly utilized to finetune AI assistants. But human feedback may also encourage model responses that match user beliefs over truthful ones, a behaviour known a…
Question Decomposition Improves the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning
Ansh Radhakrishnan, Karina Nguyen, Anna Chen +21
As large language models (LLMs) perform more difficult tasks, it becomes harder to verify the correctness and safety of their behavior. One approach to help with this issue is to p…
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Tamera Lanham, Anna Chen, Ansh Radhakrishnan +27
Large language models (LLMs) perform better when they produce step-by-step, "Chain-of-Thought" (CoT) reasoning before answering a question, but it is unclear if the stated reasonin…
Towards Measuring the Representation of Subjective Global Opinions in Language Models
Esin Durmus, Karina Nguyen, Thomas I. Liao +15
Large language models (LLMs) may not equitably represent diverse global perspectives on societal issues. In this paper, we develop a quantitative framework to evaluate whose opinio…
The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models
Deep Ganguli, Amanda Askell, Nicholas Schiefer +46
We test the hypothesis that language models trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) have the capability to "morally self-correct" -- to avoid producing harmf…
Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations
Ethan Perez, Sam Ringer, Kamilė Lukošiūtė +60
As language models (LMs) scale, they develop many novel behaviors, good and bad, exacerbating the need to evaluate how they behave. Prior work creates evaluations with crowdwork (w…
Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Saurav Kadavath, Sandipan Kundu +48
As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs. We experiment with methods for training a harmless AI assistant through self-improveme…
Measuring Progress on Scalable Oversight for Large Language Models
Samuel R. Bowman, Jeeyoon Hyun, Ethan Perez +43
Developing safe and useful general-purpose AI systems will require us to make progress on scalable oversight: the problem of supervising systems that potentially outperform us on m…
In-context Learning and Induction Heads
Catherine Olsson, Nelson Elhage, Neel Nanda +23
"Induction heads" are attention heads that implement a simple algorithm to complete token sequences like [A][B] ... [A] -> [B]. In this work, we present preliminary and indirect ev…
Toy Models of Superposition
Nelson Elhage, Tristan Hume, Catherine Olsson +13
Neural networks often pack many unrelated concepts into a single neuron - a puzzling phenomenon known as 'polysemanticity' which makes interpretability much more challenging. This…
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…
Scaling Laws and Interpretability of Learning from Repeated Data
Danny Hernandez, Tom Brown, Tom Conerly +15
Recent large language models have been trained on vast datasets, but also often on repeated data, either intentionally for the purpose of upweighting higher quality data, or uninte…
Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Yuntao Bai, Andy Jones, Kamal Ndousse +28
We apply preference modeling and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to finetune language models to act as helpful and harmless assistants. We find this alignment tra…
Predictability and Surprise in Large Generative Models
Deep Ganguli, Danny Hernandez, Liane Lovitt +27
Large-scale pre-training has recently emerged as a technique for creating capable, general purpose, generative models such as GPT-3, Megatron-Turing NLG, Gopher, and many others. I…
Deriving Semantics-Aware Fuzzers from Web API Schemas
Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Dmitry Dygalo
Fuzzing -- whether generating or mutating inputs -- has found many bugs and security vulnerabilities in a wide range of domains. Stateful and highly structured web APIs present sig…
A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
Amanda Askell, Yuntao Bai, Anna Chen +19
Given the broad capabilities of large language models, it should be possible to work towards a general-purpose, text-based assistant that is aligned with human values, meaning that…